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Sun drying tomatoes at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] Rustywhims 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I realize this may be a centuries old tradition thing, but holy hell that is unsanitary.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

You would be surprised under which conditions many of the basic food items you are eating daily are produced...

This is not that bad, actually.

The tomatoes are prepared with salt, as it seems (you can still see some salt crystals between them) and will dry relatively fast in the sun and hot wind of southern Italy.

Salt and water removal will quickly make the tomatoes a hostile environment for any kind of microbiological life.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do they try to stop birds shitting on them or just get rid of the ones that do get shat on?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Yeah... You may want to sit down...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes.

[–] Lotarion 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Extra ash flavor. Yum!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

People pay extra for the smokey bbq flavor!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Chat is this AI? What am I looking here?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

No, not AI.

Just perspective and a really narrow aperture setting while taking the picture, leading to an image that is sharp throughout.

These are halved tomatoes lying on grates to dry in the sun and hot wind.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would just be feeding the flies, where are the flies?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

As you can see, it's hot, sunny and windy there, food dries out fast. The radiant heat and the wind keeps flies away. In some places, people do this with meat and fish, too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Honestly I don't get why sun dried tomatoes don't get used more in lieu of the fresh kind, they're way more flavorful on their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

those thing look huge! swimming pool sized tomatoes, how do they ever slice them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just imagine how much bigger they must be before drying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why is it not rotting or attracting insects?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hot n dry

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Also: salt.

You can see some undissolved salt crystals lying there between the tomatoes.